International News

2:20 AM on Thursday, February 19

Mine officials and a labor union say five miners are trapped deep underground at a South African diamond mine after a mudslide

11:14 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Verona hosts the Milan Cortina Winter Games closing ceremony in its ancient Arena di Verona on Sunday

8:20 PM on Wednesday, February 18

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony to unveil the deployment of 50 new launch vehicles for nuclear-capable short-range missiles threatening rival South Korea as he flaunted his expanding military capabilities ahead of a major ruling party congress

7:54 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Federal investigators say a veteran agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration took cash to push fraudulent visa applications through the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic

4:37 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Argentina’s President Javier Milei deepens ties with U.S. President Donald Trump while trying to avoid a break with China, Argentina’s top trading partner

4:35 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Ramadan has begun in Gaza under a fragile ceasefire deal, but many say the joyous spirit of the month has disappeared

1:24 PM on Wednesday, February 18

A delegation of U.S. senators is returning from a trip to Ukraine

12:48 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday

10:42 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

10:31 AM on Wednesday, February 18

José María Balcázar has become Peru's new interim president, replacing another interim leader who was removed over corruption allegations just four months into his term

10:13 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution

9:42 AM on Wednesday, February 18

British police forces are working together to assess potential crimes revealed in documents from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

5:48 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The Cuban foreign minister is visiting Moscow as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U

5:03 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Paris prosecutors have opened two new investigations tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and they call on possible victims in France to come forward

3:25 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine have ended with no sign of a breakthrough

11:55 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she will seek the presidency in the 2028 elections

11:12 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Britain’s House of Lords is facing scrutiny as an indirect result of the Jeffrey Epstein files

11:12 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Team USA skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, along with Italy’s Federica Brignone, are among the many skiers who have expressed concern during these Olympic Games about the accelerating melt of the world’s glaciers

6:41 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she hopes to deepen her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump

9:57 PM on Thursday, February 12

Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other